Buena Vista's Dustin Urban paddles to third place in the Teva Mountain Games freestyle contest Saturday in Vail's Gore Creek.

Carbondale multi-sport athlete Sari Anderson pedals in Sunday's time trial race at the Teva Mountain Games in Vail. Anderson won the four-race Ultimate Mountain Challenge, with a top combined time from the time trial, downriver kayak race, cross-country mountain bike race and 10k trail run.

Josiah Middaugh was all smiles at the start of Sunday's Road Bike Time Trial race up Vail Pass. The Vail triathlete won his sixth Ultimate Mountain Challenge title at the weekend's Teva Mountain Games with a leading combined time in four races.

Masayuki Takahata falls out of the raft as teammate Todd Toledo reaches for him during the Teva Mountain Games raftcross event Sunday in Vail. Takahata and Toledo finished second.

VAIL — Carbondale endurance athlete Sari Anderson claimed her second ultimate mountain challenge title Sunday with solid performances in the 10-kilometer spring runoff trail run and the road bike time trial up Vail Pass.

Although Anderson finished more than two minutes behind Avon’s Gretchen Reeves in the final time-trial event of the four-race ultimate mountain challenge, her work on the mountain bike and kayak Saturday kept her atop the ultimate podium with a combined time of 4 hours, 20 minutes, 27 seconds. Reeves was second, 6:03 behind Anderson, and 31-year-old Sara Tarkington of Boulder took third in the contest that combines times in the cross country mountain bike race, the downriver kayak race, the 10K trail run and time trial.

“I lost a bunch of time on the hill climb,” said Anderson, whose top time going into the time trial meant she started before Reeves and Tarkington. “They passed me, and I just tried to keep them in sight and minimize my losses. We are always battling to the last minute. I could have easily flatted and lost.”

Josiah Middaugh earned his sixth ultimate mountain challenge title with another dominant performance. The 33-year-old triathlete from Vail — a seven-time Xterra USA national champion — finished the four races with a time of 3:42:17, almost 10 minutes ahead of runner-up Travis Macy. Littleton racer Jay Luke took third.

Road bike time trial. With a strong tail wind blowing up Vail Pass, there was hope that Colorado’s most accomplished hill climber, Tom Danielson, would topple the record for road bike time trial, set in 2008 by Australian Benjamin Day.

But although the wind wasn’t enough for the Boulder pro cyclist to beat Day’s punishing record of 25:48, it was enough for the Danielson, 34 and a master of uphill racing, to earn the time trial title.

Mara Abbott of Boulder won the women’s time trial race in 32:44.47, followed by Colorado Springs’ Kelli Emmett and 45-year-old Steamboat Springs cyclist Tammy Jacques.

Bouldering World Cup. Dominant Austrian climbers Anna Stohr and Kilian Fischhuber — winners of last year’s event — again found the top step of the podium Saturday at the International Federation of Sport Climbing Bouldering World Cup. The duo danced through complex, overhanging boulder problems to defend their world champion titles. U.S. women Alex Johnson and Alex Puccio were the top American finishers, placing fourth and fifth, respectively.

Josh Eberly of Gunnison posted a 51:03 time to win the men’s 10K race, followed by Ryan Hafer of Colorado Springs and Jeremy Freed of Boulder. Eberly took second in Saturday’s Vail Pass Half Marathon, behind winner Randall Glenn of Mesa.

Jason Blevins covers tourism, mountain business, skiing and outdoor adventure sports for both the business and sports sections at The Denver Post, which he joined in 1997. He skis, pedals, paddles and occasionally boogies in the hills and is just as inspired by the lively entrepreneurial spirit that permeates Colorado's high country communities as he is by the views.

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